Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ownership of these off-shore lands is a hot issue because they hold an estimated forty billion dollars worth of oil. So when Secretary of the Interior Ickes first accepted an application for a federal oil lease off-shore California in 1936, he opened a sixteen year legal battle for control of this oil. Ten years later President Truman wisely vetoed the first Congressional attempt to give away the land. Finally, the Supreme Court decided in 1947 that the Federal government had paramount rights in this off-shore area...
...education through grants to all the states--much as the sale of public land was originally used to support colleges. Since the states had never held title to this coastal land anyway, the O'Mahoney-Hill plan was a generous settlement; the Senate rejected it 47-36 and gave ownership away to the states...
...authors also devised a kind of rating for domesticity, in which a maximum of seven points could be scored: three points for those who were still married and living with their first wives; one point per child, up to a maximum of three; one point for home ownership. Almost a fourth of the men over 40 had the full seven points. More than another fourth (29%) six points, missing the top score because they rent their homes, have only two children, or have been divorced in the past...
...also been called (by Socialists) "the greatest Socialist in Canada." Although he has made public ownership pay, Howe is no Socialist, but a member of Canada's Liberal Party. The party has been in uninterrupted power for 16 years, and its ideology, except in fiscal policy, is roughly akin to that of the Democrats in the U.S. Says Howe: "I'm all for private enterprise, but you can't go without something just because private enterprise won't build...
...M.D.C. proposal included provisions for the Crimson hockey team, but it is not known whether or not the sextet could use the facilities under Boston School Committee ownership. The Garden will be available for college play, regardless...